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X.com is Twitter, but what are [a-z].com?
An exploration into the internet's most simple domain names
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I need more USB power
Everything seems to be USB-C powered nowadays - I need more power on my workbench!
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GPT-3 will ignore tools when it disagrees with them
Augmenting GPT-3 with tools is a popular technique right now. But is GPT-3 really using them?
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Mojo is now available on Mac
We released Mojo local download for Linux systems on September 7th, and in just over a month we’ve seen tens of thousands of downloads and amazing community projects such as llama.🔥and Infermo. We deeply value your feedback, as Mojicians, and we appreciate every single PR, feature request, and bug report.
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Localization Failure: Temperature Is Hard
The Guardian is one of my favorite news sources. I’m a subscriber (support news organizations!) and I read it daily. But it is not immune to errors, as this headline shows:68 °F above average is a …
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Lumber prices down 11% YoY
Here is another monthly update on lumber prices. SPECIAL NOTE: The CME group discontinued the Random Length Lumber Futures contract on May...
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Maybe you should store passwords in plaintext
“Never, ever, think about something else when you should be thinking about the power of incentives.” – Charlie Munger, American billionaire investor.
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Most AI startups are doomed
Just because it matters doesn’t mean it’s defensible or profitable
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SQL reserved words – An empirical list
These words cause problems as table or column name
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CTEs as lookup tables
How to use a CTE instead of complicated CASE expressions
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Microsoft is failing to deliver emails that mention newclimate.org
Since 17 October, to our knowledge any email with the NewClimate URL (newclimate dot org) in the email body, link, signature, reply header or contained anywhere in an attachment is unjustifiably quarantined by Microsoft email servers without any notice, regardless of who sends or receives the email.
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The Cornell Note Taking System
Why do you take notes? What do you hope to get from your notes? What are Cornell Notes and how do you use the Cornell note-taking system?
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Bad Apple Font
It is possible to embed a animation into a font, with only a small amount of hacking
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HTML attributes for improved accessibility and user experience
A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites.
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Reflected Diffusion Models
Diffusion models are trained to reverse a stochastic process through score matching. However, a lot of diffusion models rely on a small but critical implementation detail called thresholding. Thresholding projects the sampling process to the data support after each discretized diffusion step, stabilizing generation at…
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Exploratory data analysis for humanities data
The course was very much an experiment, an attempt to combine literary study with computing. The 17 surviving students were largely sophomores. About two thirds of them were hard-core humanities majors; the rest were potential or actual CS majors or other STEM concentrators. The class met once a week for three hours…
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AcousticBrainz: Making a hard decision to end the project (2022)
We created AcousticBrainz 7 years ago and started to collect data with the goal of using that data down the road once we had collected enough. We finally got around to doing this recenty, and realised that the data simply isn’t of high enough quality to be useful for much at all.
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Update: The Swedish authorities answered our protocol request
Since the events of the search warrant by the Swedish police at Mullvad’s office in Gothenburg, we have tried to get hold of documents and protocols tied to the operation. This is what the authorities came back with.
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We're Knot Friends
It’s April Cools again. For a few summers in high school and undergrad, I was a day camp counselor. I’ve written before about how it helped me develop storytelling skills, but recently I thought of it again because, while I was cleaning out a closet full of old junk, I happened upon a bag of embroidery thread. While…
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The year of C++ successor languages
2022 has seen many languages created to rival C++. Lucian Radu Teodorescu reports on the current state of the art.
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Uber migrates microservices to multi-cloud platform running Kubernetes and Mesos
Each and every week, Uber’s 4,500 stateless microservices are deployed more than 100,000 times by 4,000 engineers and many autonomous systems. These services are developed, deployed, and operated by hundreds of individual teams working independently across the globe. The services vary in size, shape, and…
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Leveling up in job interviews for software engineers (2022)
How to stand out in job interviews as an engineer.
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Managers exploit loyal workers over less committed colleagues
DURHAM, N.C. – Company loyalty is a double-edged sword, according to a new study. Managers target loyal workers over less committed colleagues when doling out unpaid work and additional job tasks.
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My Node.js is a bit Rusty
Replacing an internal Node.js module with a native Rust module made a x25 perf boost. Let’s understand why.
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Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API
Attention Subtitles Enthusiasts! Big Changes Ahead for OpenSubtitles.org API As the familiar landscape of online movie subtitle searches undergoes a transformation, OpenSubtitles.org has announced the end of its original API service in 2022. A significant shift in its system has been set in motion, marking the end of…
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Thunderbird 115.4.0
Thunderbird is a free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features!